 Our airplane to London |
 LONDON - City Inn at Westminster. Great! |
 Big Ben |
 gardens near the hotel |
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 Westminster Abbey |
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 St. James Park |
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 Buckingham Palace |
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 Buckingham Palace |
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 Volvo limo! |
 First call home - from a classic phone booth! |
 English Pub - watching the England World Cup game |
 Piccadilly Circus |
 Changing of the Guard |
 House of Parliment |
 Big Ben - which is the name of the bell not the clock! |
 From the second story of our bus tour... the London Eye on the Thames River |
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 English Pubs everywhere |
 St. Paul's Cathedral |
 Tower Bridge |
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 Tower of London |
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 view from our river boat cruise |
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 Maiden Lane |
 street performers |
 inside the theatre - "Grumpy Old Women" |
 we had box seats! no flash allowed |
 Outside of City Inn |
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 Room service! We're really on vacation! |
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 Taxi to London train station - going by Chunnel to Paris |
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 our "tip up" seats....in the luggage compartment! :) |
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 PARIS - our hotel room - Jardins d'Eiffel |
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 view from our balcony... |
 if you lean out and look left -- Eiffel Tower! right from our room! |
 First crepe!!! :) Liking Paris more and more... |
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 view from the Eiffel Tower |
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 Napoleon's Military Institute |
 Seine River |
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 Notre Dame |
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 Arch de Triumph |
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 Celebrations for Portugal... in France! |
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 Eiffel Tower lit up at night - from our room |
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 random condom dispenser in the middle of the street! |
 The Louvre |
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 Mass at Notre Dame |
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 Napoleon's Apt. - in the Louvre |
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 the outside of Hotel Jardins d'Eiffel |
 Our overnight train from Paris to Rome |
 in the dining car... dinner with Ira and Michael! |
 ROME |
 Piazza Venecia |
 Roman Forum |
 Pantheon |
 Pantheon |
 our tour group |
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 Trevi Fountain |
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 Our tour guide: Raul |
 Fountain of the 4 rivers |
 Piazza Navona? |
 Hotel Saturnia in Rome |
 Colosseum |
 arch outside colosseum |
 inside |
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 Roman Forum - ancient road |
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 dinner at Piazza Navona |
 our favorite GELATERIA ...cone #157 |
 our bathroom |
 the room |
 the balcony outside room |
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 balcony in room in Rome |
 Vatican |
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 St. Peter's square |
 I'm in the HOLY CITY! My toe is in! |
 Now in Florence... Well, Tavarnelle di Pesa. Antica Pieve B&B in the TUSCAN region |
 the room |
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 courtyard at our B&B |
 blisters on the bottom of my toes! |
 Our hotel! Antica Pieve! ... Tuscany |
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 olive trees |
 we drank this wine! |
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 MILAN - Hotel Star |
 purple granite! |
 our room |
 view from balcony |
 Duomo ... under construction |
 inside |
 G outside Duomo |
 Ferrari store |
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 NUTELLA! |
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 collars for the baby!! 40 euro! |
 Outside of Hotel Star in Milan |
 Leonardo |
 overnight train from Milan to Barcelona |
 BARCELONA hotel - Hotel Duc de la Victoria - a suite! sweet... |
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 stairs at one of our fav gelato joints in Barcelona |
 Chris Columbus statue |
 huge fish at the pier in Barcelona |
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 this bridge turns to let boats pass through... Dad! |
 desserts waiting for us at the hotel when we got back |
 Las Ramblas |
 views from our hotel balcony |
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 an English pub we found to watch the Spain v. France game |
 I heart Strongbow |
 our new friends - thatīs me screaming ... the man in yellow bought our drinks all night! |
 outside of Barcelona hotel |
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 Gaudi architecture |
 we made it to MADRID |
 Our room at Hotel Preciados! |
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 Museum of Ham! Perfect! |
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 outside the Prado Museum |
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 Royal Botanical Gardens right across from the Prado Musuem |
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 what is this?!? |
 sunflowers... and then ... |
 PURPLE sunflowers! |
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 Garrett by the Tuscan trees |
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 this dog looked like it was from Star Wars... like Chewy |
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 another side of the Prado. We saw the Picasso exhibit |
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 my dorm! |
 my bed |
 my closet |
 desk |
 the Biblioteca --- classrooms too |
 On our field trip to the Constitutional Court |
 Group of us out for 4th of July at an Irish Pub in Spain...and it was Angie's b-day :) |
 Crystal and Jess -- in Granada |
 view from The Alhambra in Granada |
 Left to Right: Lisa, Angie, Jenny, Vincent, Katie |
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 Katie, Angie, Jess |
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 Crystal, Pryia, Jenny, Jess, Ashley |
 Jess, Pryia, Sara |
 Katie & Jess -- fans are essential in Madrid! |
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 Granada |
 Pryia, Jenny, Ashley, Jess, Sara |
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 open air silk market in Granada |
 Crystal, Jess, Jenny |
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 one of the white hill towns |
 Most of these pics are from inside the Alhambra in Granada |
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 Back left: Crystal, Mary Kate, Angie, Jenny, Jess, Roberto. Middle Row: Sara and Matt. Front: Vincent |
 lounging by the pool |
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 la pisquina |
 on the left is all of my mail when I check in!! On the right are the text books!! |
 The dorm bathrooms |
 there are basketball, tennis, and soccer courts |
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 where the computer lab is |
 where our classes are |
 my room with the shades down - pitch black! |
 someone wrote "Bob" on the Jesus above my bed |
 In Sevilla ... at the Alcazar |
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 the neatest fountain |
 the neatest tree trunk |
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 Jess, Ashley, Jenny |
 trying to stay out of the sun |
 Going to a Flamenco Show in Seville. Pryia, Jess, Ashley, Sara, Crystal, Jenny |
 the stage |
 river in Seville. |